Actress Vella Lovell (Crazy Ex- Girlfriend, The Big Sick) joins us this week to nerd out on books. Vella talks about reading as an actor, examining scripts for clues to her character's inner workings, and being a good scene partner. Vella also talks about trusting Oprah's Book Club recommendations and her love of self help books, especially as a spiritual guide for working actors. We also talk about why it doesn't matter how you read, it just matters that you pick up a book and get started.

Check out all the books, plays, and movies Traci and Vella discuss right here in the show notes.
BOOKS

New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
Alls Well The Ends Well by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
New People by Danzy Senna
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Hunger by Roxane Gay
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo

Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres
A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Into the Wild by John Krakauer
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer
Missoula by John Krakauer
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Where Men Win Glory by John Krakauer
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Far Away Brothers by Lauren Markham
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
The Soulmate Secret  by Arielle Ford
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitz
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caucasia by Danzy Senna
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In The Woods by Tana French
Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama

EVERYTHING ELSE

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (CW)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Soundtrack
The Big Sick (Amazon Studios)
Felicity (WB)
A Chorus Line (Columbia Pictures)
Save the Last Dance (Paramount Pictures)
Rent (The Nederlander Organization)
Jesse L. Martin
Brandon Uranowitz
Neighbors (The Public Theatre)
Oprah's Book Club
Eso Won Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Book Soup (Los Angeles, CA)
Chevalier's Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Bart's Books of Ojai (Ojai, CA)
Strand Bookstore (New York, NY)
Powell's Books (Portland, OR)
Jonathan Groff
The Bacchae (The Public Theater)
Anne with an E (Netflix)
Brene Brown
Elizabeth Gilbert
Rami Malek
Daniel Kaluuya

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